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Part songs

Here are entered secular vocal chamber music works for solo voices or chorus, unaccompanied or with instruments, including collections and individual works in more than one language. Part songs in a single language are entered under the heading qualified by the language, e.g. Part songs, English.

Part songs composed in a specific form are entered under the form, e.g. Polyphonic chansons.

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• Vocal music

• Madrigals
• Part songs, English
• Part songs, Sacred

• Partsongs
• Secular part songs

• The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 Voices (London: Thomas Fiste, 1598), by John Wilbye (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)

• City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Martha Feldman (HTML at UC Press)

• The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 Voices (London: Thomas Fiste, 1598), by John Wilbye (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
• Two Bookes of Ayres (words; from a 1903 edition of this 17th-century text), by Thomas Campion (illustrated HTML at luminarium.org)

• A Musicall Dreame, or the Fourth Booke of Ayres (London: Simon Waterson, 1609), by Robert Jones (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• Deuteromelia, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
• Melismata: Musicall Phansies Fitting the Court, Citie and Countrey Humours, by Thomas Ravenscroft (page images at pbm.com)
• Pammelia: Musicks Miscellanie, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)

• The XII Wonders of the World (London: Thomas Snodham for John Browne, 1612), by John Maynard (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Two Bookes of Ayres (words; from a 1903 edition of this 17th-century text), by Thomas Campion (illustrated HTML at luminarium.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Musikalisches Vielerley (vocal text primarily in German; Hamburg: M. C. Bock, 1770), ed. by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (page images at HathiTrust; page order reversed)

• Handbook to the Vocal Works of Brahms (Historical, Descriptive and Analytical Account of the Entire Works of Johannes Brahms, v1; London: W. Reeves, 1912), by Edwin Evans
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Les Agréments et le Rythme: Leur Représentation Graphique dans la Musique Vocale française du XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Rouart, Lerolle, et cie, ca. 1917), by Jane Arger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Poetic Origins and the Ballad (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Louise Pound (PDF at unl.edu)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Leah Middlebrook (PDF at PSU)

• The Choir Herald (partial serial archives)
• The Choir Leader (partial serial archives)

• Les Agréments et le Rythme: Leur Représentation Graphique dans la Musique Vocale française du XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Rouart, Lerolle, et cie, ca. 1917), by Jane Arger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)

• Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Roald Maliangkay
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• From Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Sylvia Huot (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• The Wandering Scholars (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Helen Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Amelia Eileen Van Vleck (HTML at UC Press)

• Oriental Music in European Notation, ed. by A. M. C. Mudaliyar (partial serial archives)

• Oriental Music in European Notation, ed. by A. M. C. Mudaliyar (partial serial archives)

• Stories of the Scottish Border (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1929), by William Platt and Mrs. William Platt, illust. by Morris Meredith Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Stories of the Scottish Border (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1917), by William Platt and Mrs. William Platt, illust. by Morris Meredith Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Norse King's Bridal: Translations from the Danish and Old Norse, with Original Ballads (London: A Melrose, 1912), ed. by E. M. Smith-Dampier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684, ed. by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
• A Collection of Ballads, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• A Garland of New Songs: Allen A-Dale; Paddy Carey; Ma Chere Amie; William Tell; Oh the Moment Was Sad; The Cottage on the Moor (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Bess the Gawkie; Blythe Was She; Yorkshireman in London; Pray Goody (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: God Save the King; Rule, Britannia; The Jubilee; General Wolfe; The Trumpet Sounds a Victory (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: O How I Love Somebody; The Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow; Of A' the Airts the Win' Can Blaw; The Banks of the Dee (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Sweet Willy o' the Green; The Yorkshire Concert; The Yorkshire Irishman; The Woodland Maid (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Battle of the Nile; Tom Starboard' The Sailor's Adieu; Tom Bowling; True Courage; The Sea Boy (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bay of Biscay; O, All's Well; Poor Joe the Marine; The Mid Watch; The Sea-Boy; The Sailor's Adieu (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Bonny Scotch Lad and His Bonnet So Blue; The Blackbird; My Sailor Dear Shall Guard my Pillow; Bundle of Truths (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Death of Nelson; Lochaber; The Yellow-Hair'd Laddie; Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad; The Yorkshire Concert (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Fairest of The Fair; Here's a Health, &c.; The Sea-Boy; Giles Scroggins' Ghost; My Only Jo' an' Dearie O; The Beautiful Maid; The Royal Love Letter (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: The Storm, by Mrs. Robinson; A Free Mason's Song; My Eye and Betty Martia (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Garland of New Songs: Tweed Side; My Nanie, O; Highland Laddie; Up in the Morning Early; Flowers of the Forest (Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, ca. 1800) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Golden Vanity; and The Green Bed (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), contrib. by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (HTML and page images at comcast.net)
• Real Sailor-Songs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), ed. by John Ashton
  • PDF files at Rochester
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rhymes a la Mode, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rakish Rhymer: or Fancy Man's Own Songster and Reciter ("Lutetia" small limited edition; 1917) (HTML and PDF page images at horntip.com)
• Songs and Ballads of the West: A Collection Made From the Mouths of the People (with piano arrangements; London: Methuen and Co., ca. 1891), by S. Baring-Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: How and Parsons, 1842), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (texts): PDF at imslp.org
• The Songs of Charles Dibdin, Chronologically Arranged, With Notes, Historical, Biographical, and Critical; and The Music of the Best and Most Popular of the Melodies, with New Piano-Forte Accompaniments; To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author (2 volumes; London: G. H. Davidson, 1848), by Charles Dibdin, contrib. by George Hogarth
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Songs of the West: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornall, Collected From the Mouths of the People (5th edition, with musical scores included; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by S. Baring-Gould, H. Fleetwood Sheppard, and F. W. Bussell, ed. by Cecil J. Sharp (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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